Archiprix International
Archiprix International

Author: Henk van der Veen

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9064506167

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Every two years, Archiprix International invites all university-level courses in the field of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture to select their best graduation projects and to submit these for participation. This book presents a cross-section of the projects, including the nominees and winners chosen by an independent jury, and the favorites chosen by the participants themselves, supplemented by a representative selection that shows the range of designs and the graphical distribution across all continents. In addition, the book contains the jury report as well as biographies of the designers of the nominated projects. A DVD presents the entirety of the projects. Archiprix International was first organized in Rotterdam, the home base of Archiprix International, in 2001. In 2007, Archiprix International is held in Shanghai, with the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University as the main partner. Archiprix International provides a platform for educational courses in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture, and brings together and supports newly-graduated, talented designers at the start of their career.

Archiprix 2008
Archiprix 2008

Author: Henk van der Veen

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9064506477

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Every year, Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied, and reflects the ambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that comes their way. Archiprix 2009 introduces the latest wave of fledgling design talent.

Eighteenth-century Neapolitan Staircases
Eighteenth-century Neapolitan Staircases

Author: Dirk de Meyer (Professor)

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789076714493

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Eighteenth-century Neapolitan staircases present a shift from the traditional, monumental Baroque palace stairs towards the staircase that is serving four, five or more levels of apartments of different social standing. While prefiguring stairs in modern apartment buildings, they solve issues of aristocratic etiquette as well as practical plan arrangements. They are showpiece and utility in one. At times grand and imposing, at times cramped in tapered courtyards, these staircases are numerous and disparate in form. This book documents seven of them, by Neapolitan architects such as Ferdinando Sanfelice. It is the outcome of a master seminar in Architectural History at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ghent University.

Robotic Building
Robotic Building

Author: Henriette Bier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-09-13

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9783030100001

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The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable, adaptive systems incorporating sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time. These require Design-to-Production and Operation chains that are numerically controlled and (partially or completely) robotically driven. From architectured materials, on- and off-site robotic production to robotic building operation augmenting everyday life, the volume examines achievements of the last decades and outlines potential future developments in Robotic Building. This book offers an overview of the developments within robotics in architecture so far, and explains the future possibilities of this field. The study of interactions between human and non-human agents at building, design, production and operation level will interest readers seeking information on architecture, design-to-robotic-production and design-to-robotic-operation.

Hyperbody
Hyperbody

Author: Kas Oosterhuis

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 9789490322090

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HYPERBODY, directed by Prof. Kas Oosterhuis, is an information technology driven research and design group operating within the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. The group is at the forefront in the development of computationally driven non-standard and interactive architecture, which is parametrically actuated by users and their immediate environment. Interactive, non-standard architecture and urbanism is seen as an active, component-based system that reflects contemporary social and spatial reality.